South By Southwest® Interactive News

Organizer, moderator and speaker of How CNN and The New York Times Moderate Comments,” Patrick O’Keefe has more than fifteen years of direct online community management experience, including policy development, staff leadership and platform strategy. He has also been involved in content moderation for over seventeen years, with...

Wanelo, the brainchild of Deena Varshavskaya, has the potential to transform the way we consume. Based on the idea of a 'digital mall,' Wanelo combines the the social connectivity and aesthetic layout of sites like Pinterest with online retail to create an interactive and personalized shopping experience. It features...

When asked about the best SXSW Interactive networking strategy, Byron Reese has a unique, and fun, answer. “Look for someone with a wicked cool T-shirt. Say, ‘Dude, that is one wicked cool T-shirt.’ Proceed from there,” he says. In addition to this sound advice, this Austinite hopes to teach...

SXSW will be using iBeacon™ technology this March with the official SXSW GO® mobile app. Using Bluetooth LE technology, the app incorporates beacon zones to provide attendees with a comprehensive view of other attendees in the vicinity, inspiring more meaningful connections. The beacons will also provide useful event messages...

Creative drive: it’s something we all share, and Mazda’s no stranger to it either. In fact, they have a term for it: obsessive engineering. We invited three top Mazda employees, representing user experience, tech and design, to share their creative processes, sources of inspiration and approaches to problem solving....

Our mission to find individuals doing creative work in the food space continues, and this week we're bringing you past SXSW speaker, Ned Elliot, and his passion project Indie Chefs Week. Elliot spoke at SXSW Interactive 2014, about the DIY spirit that is fueling young chefs across the country, and...